KDevelop 1.0 Beta 1 (a bit off-topic)

[Marko Samastur]

Hi,

I have a small complaint and a suggestion. Please don't take me wrong, I
think Kdevelop is a great piece of software and that you are doing a
great job.
However, I do find this jump from 0.4 to 1.0 Beta 1 a bit odd. Kdevelop
certainly deserves to be tagged with the later label, but why was it 0.4
before?
Maybe it's just me, but it gives a strange impression about the whole
project (the same GNOME did with their jump from 0.3 to 0.99). It seems
that open source developers are very conservative at first with their
numbering of releases (afraid of strong reactions?),  but become
suddenly bolder at the end of development cycle (gained
self-confidence?).
But maybe the real reason is the lack of clear road map. I think that
you know what you want to put in your product, but not when. It would be
nice, if there was a plan like (this one is completely made up):
0.5 included GUI builder
0.7 included programming tools for working with databases
0.9 feature full, but contains well known showstopers for 2.0
That way it would be easier for everybody to know, where this ship is
going and how far is it on its way.

Maybe I am mistaken and a plan like this exist (and I've just missed it)
or my idea is just stupid. Anyway, this is something I would love to see
more in open source world. If I have no idea about what's coming and to
some extent when, it gets harder to do complementary development (tools
that would complement Kdevelop for instance).

Thank you for everything.

Best regards,

	Marko

Ralf Nolden wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> as you may already have noticed on various sites and on
> www.kdevelop.org, we've released KDevelop 1.0 Beta 1 today.
> 
> The version is an updated and extended 0.4 with the features of CVS
> support, more documentation, a fixed classbrowser and corrected
> syntax-highlighting.
> 
> Please give it a try - KDevelop is not considered "alpha" anymore but in
> beta status. Therefore the 1.0 won't change until the KDE release. We
> ask all testers - who are now acutally Beta-testers - to send in
> bugreports for the current release. There will be no more feature
> addidions, just security patches, translations and bugfixes.
> 
> KDevelop 1.0 will be available with the next KDE 1.x release coming out
> in a few weeks, so corrections should be sent in within a reasonable
> time-frame.
> 
> Ralf Nolden
> The KDevelop Team